Feeding device.



PATEN'I'ED MAY 16, 1905'.

A. F. JAUQUEMIN. FEEDING DEVICE.

APPLIOATIOK FILED OUT. 18, 1904. Q

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.No. 789,976. PATBNTED MAY 16, 1905.

- A. P. JAGQU-EMIN.

FEEDING- ngvmn,

APPLICATION FILED 00.13.18, 1904.

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UNITED STATES I Patented May 16, 1905.

PATENT OF IQE.

AUGUSTE F. JAOQUEMIN, OF KENNEBUNK, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO NA- TIONAL FIBREBOARD COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

' FEEDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,976, dated May 16,1905.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTE F. JACQUE- MIN, of Kennebunk, in thecountyof York and State of Maine, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Feeding Devices, of'

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in feeding devices which areadapted to feed flat pieces of thin material one by one to othermechanism for further operation, and its object is to provide means forfeeding such pieces of sheet material, called blanks, from a pack withcertainty and despatch; and my invention consists in an improvement uponthe device shown in Letters Patent of the United States N 0. 205,191,granted toJoseph Keiffer June 25, 187 8, to which reference is heremade.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figurel represents a plan View of a machine embodying my invention asapplied to a shoe-counter-molding machine similar in design to that inthe patent above referred to. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, partlyin section; Fig. 3, a front view, and Fig. 4 a detail, of the separatorto be hereinafter described.

Like figures of reference refer to like parts in all the drawings.

In feeding sheets or blanks of thin material, like cardboard, one by onefrom a pack, as shown in the drawings, there is a practical diflicultyin the operation of the machine, as the projection which is intended tocatch a single blank and remove itfrom the pack must not project morethan the thickness of one sheet or it will be liable to catch two. Henceif the sheets are stiff and do not lie flat it is liable to misscatching any at all. To obviate this is the object of my invention; andit consists in providing a second slide carrying a separator which is athin sheet of metal which is caused to move, preferably, at right vangles to the feeding-slide and is so adjusted that it enters betweenthe end sheet of the pack and the rest of the pack and having done sothrusts the rest of the pack slightly away from the feeding-slide, sothat its projection Application filed. October 18, 1904:. Serial No.229,002.

cam-wheel 4 and an irregular cam projection 5. This shaft may be drivenby a pinion meshing with the large gear 24:- A bracket 6 extends fromthe main frame, carrying a table 7, on which is placed the pack ofblanks 8 to be operated upon. These blanks are pressed forwardby asliding follower 9, which is actuated by a rope 10, passing over pulleys11 11 and sustaininga weight 12. (See Fig. 2.) A sliding block 13, Fig.2, is adapted to slide horizontally in ways provided for it withanintermittent motion, being driven from the cam 4, in the groove ofwhich runs a pin 14:, attached'to a rocker-arm 15. On the opposite sideof said arm is a pin 16, which operates the connection-rod 17, which atits other-end is attached to a block 18, which is carried by a pinattached to the sliding block 13. tion of the shaft and cam-wheel 4 anintermittent and reciprocating motion is imparted to the slide 13. Uponthis slide is a projection 19 of about the thickness of one of theblanks to be fed, and as the pack of blanks is pressed against the slide13 the projection 19 catches the one to which it is adjacent and carriesit along until it is seized by the corrugating-rolls 20, which arefastened to upright shafts 21 and geared together, being driven bybevel-gears 22, one of which .is on a shaft 23, which is driven from thelarge gear 2 1. The blank when caught'between the corrugating-wheels iscarried away from the pack and delivered to the molds 21 22 or to beoperated upon by any other desired mechanism. This arrangement issubstantially the same as set forth in the patent above referred to.

In Figs. 3 and 4 will be seen the separator 25, hinged to and carried bya vertically-sliding plate 26, which is movable in ways on Thus it willbe seen that by the revoluthe frame of the machine. As this separator iscarried downward a rigid curved tongue 27. which is attached to-it,passes under a roller 28, and being curved outward near its upper end itthrows the separator out to an angle with the line of the slide, so thatwhen this is arranged to enter the pack and separate one of the blanksfrom the rest as its motion downward is continued it forces the balanceof the pack slightly away from the one thus separated. This separator isoperated from the earn 5, which moves one end of the rocker-arm 29,whose other end is connected by a link 30 to projecting cars 31 on theslide 26.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The pack of blanks 8 ispressed forward by the follower 9, moved by the weight 12. As the shaft2 revolves the cam 5 operates the slide 26, carrying the separator 25,which descends and is so adjusted as to separate the blank lying againstthe slide 13 from the rest of the pack. As it continues to descend thecurved tongue 27 forces the pack slightly away from the blank lyingagainst the slide 13, which latter immediately moves, and the projection19 pushes the blank away from the pack to the eorrugating-wheels, whichcarry it beyond themselves for such operation as may be desired. Theabutment 13 may be a narrow slide carrying the projection 19 betweensolid abutments; but I prefer the movable abutment, as the separatorholds back the pack while the abutment is in motion.

I claim 1. In a machine of the character described, the combination of amovable abutment with a projection thereon and adapted to remove theadjacent blank from a pack pressed against it, with means forautomatically pressing a pack of blanks against it, and a separator withmeans for operating the same so as to detach the blank lying against thesaid abutment from the pack and allow it to be removed by the slidingprojection substantially as shown and described.

2. In a machine of the character descrilmd, the combination of a tablefor holding a pack of blanks, a follower adapted to press such blanksalong such table, an abutment to receive the pressure of said blanks, asliding projection arranged to move along said abutment'and to remove asingle blank from the pack and a separator with means for operating thesame and arranged to enter the pack between the blank lying against theabutment and the remainder of the pack and to thrust the balance of thepack slightly from the abutment, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a tableadapted to receive a pack of blanks, an abutment against which saidblanks may be automatically pressed, a sliding projection adapted toremove the single blank lying against the abutment, and a pair offeed-rollers adapted to remove the blank when entered between them,arranged and to operate substantially as described.

4:. In a machine of the character described, the combination of meansfor holding a pack of blanks in position, an abutment parallel with saidblanks, means for pressing said pack toward and against the saidabutment, a separator with means for operating the same, arranged toenter the pack between the blank lying against the abutment and theremainder of the pack and means for removing the blank so separated fromits position between the abutment and the separator, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

AUGUSTE F. JACQUEMIN.

Witnesses:

F. G. SIMoNDs, ELLIOT RoGERs.

